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Two For the Price of One
Sharon Begley 8/12/2009 12:00:00 AM
It's not that Raam Venkatesh didn't have one heck of a fun time filling out applications to a dozen colleges, from New York University to UCLA. It's just that, all things being equal, he would be perfectly content not to have a similar experience in three years, when he and other current high-school seniors who have their hearts set on becoming physicians will be applying to medical schools. Venkatesh, who graduated from Lakeside High School in Augusta, Ga., in June 2009, has known since he was a kid that he wanted to be a doctor (he's thinking cardiology), but that doesn't mean he wants his choices about what to study as an undergraduate to be dictated by what medical-school admissions offices expect. So the offer from the University of Alabama at Birmingham was one he couldn't refuse. If he kept up his grades and got decent scores on the MCAT, the med-school admissions test, UAB would guarantee him a place in its well-regarded med school—no application required. "I was really attracted to the program," says Venkatesh, pausing. "But the guarantee was important."
EDUCATION
Global Headhunting
Barrett Sheridan 9/12/2008 12:00:00 AM
When next year's crop of high-school graduates arrive at Oxford University in the fall of 2009, they'll be joined by a new face: Andrew Hamilton, the 55-year-old provost of Yale, who will become Oxford's vice chancellor—a position equivalent to university president in the United States, with responsibility for the day-to-day running of the prestigious institution.
SPECIAL REPORT: THE EDUCATION RACE
A Global Headhunt
Barrett Sheridan 8/9/2008 12:00:00 AM
When next year's crop of high-school graduates arrive at Oxford University in the fall of 2009, they'll be joined by a new face: Andrew Hamilton, the 55-year-old Yale provost who will become Oxford's vice chancellor—a position equivalent to university president in the United States, with responsibility for the day-to-day running of the august institution.
The Writer Will See You Now
Mary Carmichael 10/20/2006 12:00:00 AM
LETTERS
What’s New in the World of Medicine

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